Rock Dream is a collaborative live album between Merzbow

Merzbow

is the main recording name of the Japanese noise musician , born in 1956. Since 1979 he has released in excess of 350 recordings.The name "Merzbow" comes from German artist Kurt Schwitters' artwork, "Merzbau”. This was chosen to reflect Akita's dada influence and junk art aesthetic...

 (Japan

Japan

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ese noise

Noise music

Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...

 musician Masami Akita) and Japanese experimental

Experimental music

Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...

 doom

Doom metal

Doom metal is an extreme form of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other metal genres...

 band Boris

Boris (band)

is a Japanese experimental rock band, known for often combining and switching between different music genres including drone metal, sludge metal, noise rock, psychedelic rock, ambient and pop...

.

The release consists of material recorded at a live show from 2006 entitled "Boris with Merzbow Oneman". The Southern Lord

Southern Lord Records

Southern Lord is an American record label that was founded in 1998 by Greg Anderson, specializing in what could broadly be classified as experimental heavy metal, particularly the doom metal, stoner rock, and drone metal sub-genres. Some of the more notable artists on the label include Earth, Om,...

 version has a die cut

Die (manufacturing)

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 cover and is limited to 5000 (machine numbered). "Flower Sun Rain" is a cover of the Japanese super-group PYG

Pyg

PYG was a super-group from Japan, made up of members of the most famous bands of the Group Sounds era, The Tempters, The Spiders and The Tigers....

. The vinyl version contains the bonus track "Dyno-Saur" which is not available on the CD version. According to Southern Lord, a little over 3800 were pressed. Southern Lord carried the black vinyl version (limited to 1000) through their mailorder. There are also 1000 on red vinyl and 1000 on purple vinyl. The other colors of the remaining 800 include marble orange.

CD version

LP version

Personnel

• Takeshi - vocals, bass
  Bass guitar
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   & guitar
  Electric guitar
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• Wata - vocals, guitar & echo
• Atsuo - drum
  Drum
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  s, percussion & vocals
• Masami Akita - EMS Synthi A
  EMS Synthi A
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  , computer, hand made instruments & effects

• P.A Engineered by Yasuaki Satake
• Recorded by Kazu
• Mixed & Mastering By Souichiro Nakamura at Peace Music
• Designed by Fangsanalsatan
• Photo by Miki Matsushima
• Produced by Boris with Merzbow

Pressing History

Year	Label	Format	Country	Out of Print?	Notes
2007	Diwphalanx Records Diwphalanx Records Diwphalanx Records is a Japanese punk/metal record label. It releases primarily Japanese bands.-Artist list:*Antiseen*Balzac*Banana Shakes*Bitter Sweet Generation*Blue Beat Players*Boris*Church of Misery*Central*Cool Wise Men*Dead Pan Speakers...	2CD	Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...	No
2007	Southern Lord Southern Lord Records Southern Lord is an American record label that was founded in 1998 by Greg Anderson, specializing in what could broadly be classified as experimental heavy metal, particularly the doom metal, stoner rock, and drone metal sub-genres. Some of the more notable artists on the label include Earth, Om,...	2CD	U.S. United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	Yes	Ltd 5000
2008	Southern Lord Southern Lord Records Southern Lord is an American record label that was founded in 1998 by Greg Anderson, specializing in what could broadly be classified as experimental heavy metal, particularly the doom metal, stoner rock, and drone metal sub-genres. Some of the more notable artists on the label include Earth, Om,...	3LP	U.S. United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	Yes	Ltd 3800